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Graduate Education

Our news, opinion, and advice stories about graduate education in higher education can answer questions, like:

  • Can students pay for graduate school?
  • How are universities managing their graduate programs?
  • What will graduate education look like in the future?
Graduate Education
By Megan Zahneis September 25, 2025
Some signs point to smaller-than-usual cohorts and paused programs in the next academic year.
International
By Ellie Davis September 22, 2025
The new fee could bring added challenges to colleges’ hiring of international talent and to students seeking visas for post-graduate employment.
Advice
By Patryk J. Babiracki August 12, 2025
Our departments don’t have a problem with substance. We have a problem with storytelling.
Advice
By Maria LaMonaca Wisdom August 1, 2025
Three ways to scout your future in higher ed amid unpredictable times.
Advice
Dos and don’ts of asking gen AI to help you explore career options and create job documents.
Financial aid
By Camila Gomez July 15, 2025
The tax package President Trump signed into law this month eliminates a financial-aid program that distributes billions of dollars to higher ed each year.
Advice
By James M. Lang July 10, 2025
Two pillars of teaching — structure and evidence — are also the keys to writing more effectively for the public.
Dreams Deferred
By Megan Zahneis July 3, 2025
Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.
Access & Affordability
By Dan Bauman June 18, 2025
Shuttering the program, which had been expected to lend out about $19 billion annually over the next decade, could make graduate education very costly or unattainable, warns the Council of Graduate Schools.
Advice
By Leonard Cassuto June 18, 2025
Our graduate-school enterprise exists today in a state of anxiety and reactive tension. Here’s how we’re managing.